Word: fervently
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...getting bigger by swallowing the not quite so big. Across the Pacific, though, management at Chinese National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), one of China's largest oil firms, was still pursuing what it calls "Operation Treasure Ship." Unocal, some at CNOOC think, fits perfectly into China's fervent effort to secure new oil and gas supplies to fuel its surging economy. Within the next month, CNOOC may make a counteroffer for Unocal, the world's ninth-largest oil company. If it does-and the possibility was the hotly debated topic at the Chinese company's Hong Kong board meeting last...
...dangerous thing. Mr. & Mrs. Smith is one of those movies that has been marked with every possible harbinger of doom: reshoots, budget overruns, megastar casting woes, mid-shoot script rethinks and, of course, a notorious did-they-or-didn't-they on-set hookup between the two principals. So fervent is the tabloid interest that the two stars, who should be promoting their movie, are on another continent. Can the movie rise above its reputation? Will dozens of wrongs actually make a right...
Because of fervent fans like Benjamin B. Bolger, a student at the Graduate School of Design and a teaching fellow in the Government department, “Revenge of the Sith” stands to be the biggest blockbuster hit of the summer, and possibly of the year...
...despite his rocky tenure in government, Feldstein maintains a close relationship with policy-makers in Washington to this day and remains a fervent supporter of President Bush’s economic policies...
...final report states: “It is the fervent hope of every member of our policy group that by [the 2010 census], in each of the fifty states, a system is in place to redistrict sensibly...